is there any benefits/drawbacks to having a really short down pipe.

ive seen alot of honda/dsm guys channeling their exhausts directly trough the hood. It looks intimidating but is it worth all of the noise?

ive never seen a miata with an exhaust routed that way. i figured it was because most of the manifolds for these cars sit the turbo exit pretty close to the firewall.

discuss.

 

The only time I have seen it vent upwards was on the Lemons miata. Well really they kind of flipped the stock exhaust manifold over and put the turbo out the hood. Really on a street car you would get pulled over very quickly. Also some tracks require you to be below a certain DB and it would be tough to do that with a short DP out the hood.

 

What is there to discuss? This is common sense here, doe

 

Sean with the 2jz miata did it looks sick lol but yeah for DD not practical.

 

One of the drift Miatas does it too, John Deere style with a flapper. Looks like ****, but gets style points.

 

Haha I remember that thread.